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Despite a few technical glitches tonight’s podcast got underway thanks to Matthew’s perseverance. Apologies for any reduction in sound quality – we hope we have made up for it with the quality of debate and discussion.
2 + 2 = erm…
Matthew gets us underway tonight with a study for the charity CfBT Education Trust which shows that trainee teachers in England are being out-performed by colleagues in a number of other countries. Follow it here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12806182
Can We Fix It?
Steve highlighted the new Government Green Paper on SEN. Predictable rhetoric or forward thinking innovation. You decide.
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/pupilsupport/sen
No it’s not post-modernist fiction…
Jay took up the SEN theme with a truly remarkable and shocking tale of Matthew Israel’s school in Boston, Massachusetts. The Judge Rotenberg Centre uses electric shocks to tame unwanted behaviours in children with autism and emotional difficulties.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/12/electric-shock-school-matthew-israel
And finally…
Today was budget day and in the absence of far-reaching investment in education we look at what Mr. Osborne’s budget does offer education
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